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By: daily dose of queer » Powerhouse Manager: Plans to Host the LeatherSIR/boy Competition are on Hold Indefinitely

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:24:34 +0000

[...] A couple of weeks ago I linked to an article in the Bay Area Reporter about the controversy surrounding the San Francisco LeatherSIR/boy contest’s policy prohibiting transgender competitors. [...]

By: daily dose of queer » Controlling Protests at Funerals

daily dose of queer » Controlling Protests at Funerals — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:15:44 +0000

[...] I previously linked to an article about Kansas Senator Jean Schodorf introducing a bill which included specific times and locations when protesting at funerals would be banned here. [...]

By: UMLawGirl07

UMLawGirl07 — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:08:24 +0000

I don’t know how to react to the banning of protests at funerals. On one hand, I applaud it for two reasons: People who are grieving shouldn’t be subjected to protests for any reason and I can’t stand the Westboro Church and its homophobic bile. On the other hand, I am always cautious about banning speech, even hate speech. This is a tough one for me.

By: Jami

Jami — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:38:53 +0000

I liked this quote from the B.A.R. article:
“There is this funny idea that an FTM is somehow a frog to a butch lesbian pollywog. But we hardly ever hear that an MTF is on ‘the gay male spectrum.’ Once she cuts off her penis she is considered a woman,” said Arana

As for Janet Parshall on Larry King:
She then asserted that allowing a gay couple to adopt constituted “state-sanctioned child abuse because you’ve purposely taken away either a momma or a daddy, and mom and dad are both necessary in a child’s life.”
So, in order to prevent child abuse, are we going to begin forcing hetero couples with children to immediately remarry after getting a divorce? And which “you” is she referring to who has forcibly taken away a parent when gay couples marry?